VETERANS’ BEER LEAGUE

Evening Star, Issue 19290, 1 July 1926, Page 9

VETERANS’ BEER LEAGUE

" WE WANT WINE " Delegates from thirty-two States, at a caucus in tho New York Town Hall, formed a National World War Veterans’ Light Wine and Beer League, and elected Jerome F. Duggan, of St. Louis, temporary president. Then they adopted resolutions favoring modification of the Volstead Act and applauded Miss Elizabeth Marbury’s attack upon the Eighteenth Amendment and “ drys in general.” Earlier in the day three veterans draped tho Statue of Liberty with 30ft of crepe as a protest against Biohibition. Aliss Alaxbury said she had never seen a “real dry” yet; that she had visited the homes of so-called drys and found ‘‘hooch plentiful.” She declared the people of tho United States were being “ robbed, overtaxed, bamboozled, and buffaloed ” by tho drys and I y a “mere pretext” at making tho Volstead Act an operative law. “I was the first woman,” said Miss Marbury, “ willing to stand on a public platform and oppose Prohibition. 1 have been insulted for my ideas, and many women, I believe, regard me as a, souse. The Eighteenth Amendment strikes at the root of our liberty and independence. “ Prohibition has been on trial six years, and any fair-minded person can tell vou what the result of that trial has been. I would be tho first to respect a real dry, but I have noi seen one.”